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    • 31 Days of Preparing for VBAC {An Introduction}
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    • Home preschool resources for the tired, non-creative, busy mom
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  • Home
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  • Start Here!
    • Hi, I’m Aprille…
    • Contact Me!
    • The Story Behind the Header
    • Blog’s Mission Statement
    • Blog Series
    • Top Ten Posts of All Time
    • Legalism and Grace: How I Left the IFB Movement and Chose Grace
    • Grace: How a Recovering Legalist Moves Forward in Faith
    • Online Writing Portfolio
  • Marriage
    • Our Love Story
  • Faith
  • Motherhood
    • Mothering Through Fatigue Blog Series
    • 20 Posts to Encourage Young New Moms
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    • Our final military deployment homecoming: finally together forever!
    • Homecoming 2009
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    • 31 Days of Preparing for VBAC {An Introduction}
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  • Ezra,  Family,  Grow in Grace 2016,  Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Recovering Perfectionist,  Special Needs Parenting

    Boundaries, being settled, and growing

    / July 13, 2016 / 8 Comments

    This past Sunday night, after a long battle with my digital TV antennae, I settled myself down in the basement couch to watch the USA Women’s Gymnastics Olympic Trials. I found myself a…

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  • Family,  Little Brother,  Motherhood

    Babies Need Boundaries and Limits, Too!

    / April 28, 2016 / 10 Comments

    This post is an unplanned followup to my post, What I’m doing differently with my second baby (based on 5 years of parenting a special needs first baby). As babies grow, we learn more…

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  • Ezra,  Family,  Little Brother,  Motherhood,  Special Needs Parenting

    What I’m doing differently with my second baby (based on 5 years of parenting a special needs first baby)

    / January 9, 2016 / 7 Comments

    They say that hindsight is 20-20. As I look back to Ezra’s babyhood, I now see that his neurological differences were apparent from day 1. He hated to sleep and thus fought it…

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    February 2015 Link Love

    / February 24, 2015 / 0 Comments

    Between the snow days, the child-not-sleeping, the pregnancy, and the busyness of doing all. the. things., I’ve been incredibly UNmotivated to do anything blog related. I would apologize but I’m not going to…

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  • Ezra,  Motherhood

    Bite for bite: a dinnertime strategy for picky eaters

    / November 17, 2014 / 8 Comments

    Rather than giving an incentive such as desert for eating dinner, reward bite-for-bite with foods that are desirable to the child.

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  • Special Needs Parenting

    Primary Immune Deficiency Disease: Parenting a Child with PIDD

    / October 10, 2014 / 8 Comments

    It’s not because I’m terrified of germs. It’s because I’ve spent too many hours in the emergency room, too many nights in the hospital, too many days sitting in surgery waiting rooms, too…

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    Ezra,  Motherhood

    Tactics of infancy {two steps forward, twenty steps back}

    / September 15, 2014 / 7 Comments

    I long for the day when he will learn to self-soothe. But expecting that of him has just left us all frustrated and exhausted. So, maybe for now, I'll choose the twenty steps…

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  • Ezra,  Motherhood

    When the camel’s back just keeps breaking

    / September 5, 2014 / 31 Comments

    I wish I could quit. Just lay down and say, "That's the last straw. My back is broken. I give up." But with this job, there is no laying down. No quitting. No…

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  • Monthly Link Love

    June Link Love

    / June 4, 2014 / 5 Comments

    Welcome to Monthly Link Love, where I share some goodies from other bloggers around the internets. Several of these posts really made me think - and I hope they will stir up your…

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  • Ezra,  Motherhood,  Special Needs Parenting

    When your child does everything the hard way

    / May 16, 2014 / 16 Comments

    So, to all of the moms of all of the difficult children out there: It will probably never be easy. But it will always be worth it.

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